Terri Sewell

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell (1 January 1965-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-AL 7) from 3 January 2011, succeeding Artur Davis.

Biography
Terri Sewell was born in Huntsville, Alabama on 1 January 1965, and she was the first black valedictorian of Selma High School. She graduated from Princeton University; St. Hilda's College, Oxford; and Harvard University, and she worked as a public finance attorney before being elected to the US House of Representatives in 2011. She was the first black congresswoman from Alabama, and she represented the "Black Belt" of centrla Alabama, as well as the mostly black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery. By 2018, she was also the only Democrat in the state's seven-member congressional delegation.